The South on Paper

The South on Paper

Author: James C. Kelly

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9780963283634

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Explores forty-four southern artists and eighty of their works.


Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans

Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans

Author: Laura Kilcer VanHuss

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2021-05-05

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0807175722

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Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans examines the hidden histories behind one of the nineteenth-century South’s most famous maps: Norman’s Chart of the Lower Mississippi River, created by surveyor Marie Adrien Persac before the Civil War and used for decades to guide the pilots of river vessels. Beyond its purely cartographic function, Persac’s map depicted a world of accomplishment and prosperity, while concealing the enslaved and exploited laborers whose work powered the plantations Persac drew. In this collection, contributors from a variety of disciplines consider the histories that Persac’s map omitted, exploring plantations not as sites of ease and plenty, but as complex legal, political, and medical landscapes. Essays by Laura Ewen Blokker and Suzanne Turner consider the built and designed landscapes of plantations as they were structured by the logics and logistics of both slavery and the effort to present a façade of serenity and wealth. William Horne and Charles D. Chamberlain III delve into the political activity of formerly enslaved people and slaveholders respectively, while Christopher Willoughby explores the ways the plantation health system was defined by the agro-industrial environment. Jochen Wierich examines artistic depictions of plantations from the antebellum years through the twentieth century, and Christopher Morris uses the famed Uncle Sam Plantation to explain how plantations have been memorialized, remembered, and preserved. With keen insight into the human cost of the idealized version of the agrarian South depicted in Persac’s map, Charting the Plantation Landscape encourages us to see with new eyes and form new definitions of what constitutes the plantation landscape.


American Orientalists

American Orientalists

Author: Gerald M. Ackerman

Publisher: www.acr-edition.com

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9782867700781

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Between 1843 and 1922, American artists travelled to the Near East and North Africa, painting all that they discovered. Edwin Lord Weeks and Frederick Bridgman are amongst the most famous but there was also Francis Bacon, Samuel Colman, Swain Gifford and


History of Photography

History of Photography

Author: Laurent Roosens

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 0720123542

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The fourth volume in a history of photography, this is a bibliography of books on the subject.


Pastel Painting Atelier

Pastel Painting Atelier

Author: Ellen Eagle

Publisher: Watson-Guptill

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 082300841X

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A comprehensive guide that explores pastel's relatively unexamined past, reveals her own personal influences and approaches, and guides you toward the discovery and mastery of your own vision. It provides a selection of works by masters such as James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Eugene Delacroix.


Drawn to Enchant

Drawn to Enchant

Author: Timothy Garrett Young

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780300126730

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This volume presents over 200 selected original artworks from the collection of Betsy Beinecke Shirley, one of the great collectors of American children's literature. Shirley gathered an authoritative collection of books, original illustrations, manuscripts, as well as drawings and paintings from such children's classics as ''Treasure Island'' and ''Eloise.'' The artwork in Shirley's collection guides the reader on a tour through the stages of childhood reading, this volume begins with ABC's and nursery books. It continues through adventure stories, magazines, and more, then concludes with a miscellany section of odds and ends. The images demonstrate how children's books evolved, from the nation's first days of independence to modern times. Artists whose works are represented include many of the favorites, among them Ludwig Bemelmans, Maurice Sendak, A.B. Frost, Wanda Gag, Peter Newell, N.C. Wyeth, Tony Sarg, Robert Lawson, and Johnny Gruelle.


Images

Images

Author: Eileen J. Southern

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-01-04

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1135657092

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This lavishly illustrated book brings together for the first time a significant body of imagery devoted to the traditional culture of the African-American slave.